Overalls.



No. 849,268. I PATENTED APR. 2, 1907.

L. RUTENBECK.

OVERALLS.

APPLICATION FILED AUG. 30, 1906.

INVENTOR L. Rutehbeck,

WITNESSES:

UNITED STATES PATENT oFFIoE.

LEWIS RUTENBECK, oF LosT NATION, IOWA.

' ovEaALLs.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented April 2, 1907.

Application filed August 80, 1906- Serial No. 882,644.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that 1, Laws RUTENBECK, citizen of the United States ofAmerica, and a resident of Lost Nation, Clinton county, Iowa, haveinvented certain new and useful Improvements in Overalls, of which thefollowing is a specification.

My inventlon relates to overalls; and the object of my invention is toone-piece overalls provide with suita le pockets and withproper'fastenin means.

.This object I have accomplis ed by the means which are hereinafterdescribed and claimed, and which are illustrated :in the accompanyingdrawing, which is a .front elevation of my improved one-piece overallsas it appears when s read out flat and the fastening means detac ed fromeach other. 1

The overalls conplist of a substantially rectan ar iece a, a at its u erend the br d s t-figp b. The ld i 'er portiditi of the piece a isseparated, asshown, into two depending leg-pieces.

K is a stra fastened to one breast-flap b means of 1a rivet at, saidstrap being provide with a clip Z, arranged to de tachably connect witha'button m on the other corner of said breast-fla t. A similar strap '5,is fastened at one en to one upper corner of the piece a by means of arivet w.

Said strap '5 is provided with a cli'ps, adapted to detachably connectwith a button 11, on the other upper corner of the piece (1,.

e e are short loops whose lower ends are fastened by means of the rivetso 'v .and whose upper ends are fastened by means of the button 1 andrivet w, respectively, to the upper corner portions of the front part ofthe 1ece a. a

p To the inner sides of the le -fiaps straps f f are fixedly secured atone end by means of rivets t t, and to said leg-fla s, below the strapsf j, other straps g g are edly secured by means of rivets u u.

Clips r are laced on the straps f g, respectivel y,- to etachablyconnect with the buttons 0 p on the outside edges of the said le -flaps.Upon the upper front portion of the piece (provide a sim 1e cornerofthe.-

a, above the leg-flaps, are placed the large pockets 0 c, and betweenthem is placed the smaller pocket d. A short distance below the pocketsc c are placed small pockets h h, situated near the outside edges of thelegflaps. a

The breast-flap b is suspended by means of the strap in, passing aboutthe neck of the .wearer, the strap '5 asses around the body below thearms, whi e the straps f and g are used to fasten the le -flaps aroundthe le s. The pockets 0 and may beused by t e wearer to contain nails,screws, or other articles, while the small pockets h are adaptedtocontain such a 'tool as a carpenters rule. The strap a may be used tohold a hammer or other article.

My improved overalls are easily detached from the erson of the wearer bythe means shown and serve to cover only that part of the person where itwill be e osed to the most wear with the least expen 'ture of material.Having described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to'secure by Letters Patent, is'

An overalls, com a normally flat body including a bi ,,wa1 st andseparated v in pairs and the inner edge ortions of said leg-flaps andtheir other on s adapted to be removably secured t9 said fastenmgdevices, a horizontal series of ockets secured on the waist, stra ssecure to the corners of said waist and to t e outer corners of saidhorizontal series of ockets, and pockets on the said leg-fla s.

igned at Lost Nation, Iowa, this 11th ay of August, 1906.

LEWIS RUTENBECK. Witnesses:

FRED DIOKMAN, M. W. BURNETT.

